Joe Rogan Experience #1288 - Jon Reep
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2 hours and 3 minutes
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194.70859
Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we have our first guest on the show, a mannequin. We talk about his life growing up in the 80's and early 90's, how he got his name, and what he's been up to since then. We also talk about how he ended up in a car accident and how he managed to get back on the road the next day in a Dodge Ram pickup truck. And we talk about the time he almost died in a snow ploughing accident on the side of the road in a Jeep Wrangler. We finish the episode with some of our favorite memories from the past and talk about some of the things we grew up with in the 60's and 70's. We hope you enjoy, sit down, and have a nice drink. We'll see you next week for another episode of Thick & Thin. -Jon Sorrentino and the crew If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review! We'll be looking out for you in the next episode! Subscribe, Like, and Share, and Tell a Friend about what you think of the show! Timestamps: 0:00 - What's your favorite thing you've had in the past week? 6:30 - What s your favorite piece of food? 8:00- What s the craziest thing you ve ever had in your life? 9:30- What do you've ever had? 11:15 - Who do you ve had in a vehicle or car or car? 13: What's the most fun thing you like? 16: What are you looking forward to have in your garage? 17:15- What kind of car do you would you would like to see in your next vehicle? 18:40 - How do you have in a new car or vehicle you're going to drive in the future? 19:20 - What car would you like to drive next? 22:40- What car you're most excited about? 26:20- What is your favorite kind of thing? 27:00 28: What car have you're you re looking for? 29:30 30:40 32:15 36:50 35:00 Is your favorite car or bike? 35,000 37:00 What car are you most comfortable?
Transcript
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What are you going to get your energy from the air?
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I have to ask you, did you drive in in the Hemi?
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I figured, like, you would have to have one for quite a long time.
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And around commercial three, I was talking to my agent.
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I said, man, you know, if they ask to do another one.
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I really felt like, I was sitting in the desert, like, no one's ever going to see these commercials.
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Did they give you one or did you just go out and buy one?
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Well, I said, listen, if they want me to do another commercial, see if you can get a vehicle out of them.
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And my agent was like, you know, make it their problem.
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He goes, hey, I don't know if you know this, but your Hemi guy, your spokesman, is driving around Los Angeles right now in a Suzuki Sidekick.
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If you could put a string to it and float it in the air.
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I mean, a gust of wind just knocked me off the road, and I was in a ditch.
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But it was, you know how people in motorcycles, they'll see another motorcycle and they'll wave, and it's like a little club that you're in, and Jeeps do it too.
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And I started doing that to other Suzuki sidekicks, and for whatever reason, I'd wave to them.
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Nine times out of ten, it's like an overweight black lady.
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And I'm just waving at them like, what is he doing?
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So what did they give you when they gave you a Hemi?
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It was a 1500 Dodge Ram quad cab, black, a lot of chrome.
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You know, it's like in the middle of, you know, I did six of those commercials, so I was riding around L.A. with the windows down, just blasting, you know, Leonard Skinner and shit.
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Just pull up to the comedy store, and like, park it!
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I mean, they hated parking that thing in that lot, because it's gigantic.
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Yeah, Brendan Schaub's been showing up in his, he got a Raptor.
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You didn't realize how wide those things are until you're standing in front of them.
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And then trying to valet that thing anywhere in Los Angeles, you know?
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It's a lot of tiny little Mexican dudes who are like, really, man?
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Well, the worst is if you try to valet a stick shift.
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I tried to give a valet my keys to my Bronco, and he didn't know what to do.
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I go, you don't know how to drive a stick shift.
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I don't think most people know how to, you know, anyone under 30 can drive a stick.
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American muscle cars are one of the last holdouts, like Corvette and Camaro.
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Actually, the last time I did, I was in Costa Rica, and I rented a car.
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And I'm like, I just assume all cars now, when you rent them, are automatics.
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And so, I'm pulling out of the lot, and it's like, oh shit, it's been a minute.
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When you're in Italy, they all drive stick shifts, even like minivans.
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Well, where I was in Italy, it was in Ravello, which is very small little roads.
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It's very tiny, and it's like crazy congestion because of tourism.
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And the guy was always on the clutch, back and forth, back and forth.
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It's like LA. If you're commuting to LA bumper to bumper every day, you're going to want an automatic.
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But if you're on a mountain road, like the Angels Crest Highway, and you want to shift.
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There's something cool about being in command of the vehicle and you telling it when it's, you know.
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And if it's a woman, you've got to go, ooh, don't get too close to this one.
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She's driving stick shifts like, oh, she's a rebel.
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She gets mad at you for an email from 12 years ago.
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We were looking at that thing from CES that Jamie pulled up.
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I don't feel like I'm drinking a non-alcoholic beer.
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That looks like someone was doing coke and they decided...
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It looks like it either has a planet or a spaceship on the front of it.
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It looks like one of those metal wallets that you get to keep your credit card secure.
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My fat fucking hands are not going to fit on that thing.
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I mean, at this point, we're so used to doing this.
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I'm like, oh, once we go sideways, that's going to be the shit.
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Yeah, like when you have to type on the full screen with the full keyboard.
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It's not perfect, but it's fucking way better than just your thumbs on an iPhone.
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I used to think I would never get used to that, just that, you know, the screen without feeling it.
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Like you got a bunch of shit that comes in on it.
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If you don't like Apple and you're committed to an Android phone, there's so many options.
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If the screen cracks and you bring it to the mall, what is it?
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We're going to have to go to the future and fix this thing.
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I mean, I got a cracked screen now, and it's not even that bad, but I've seen people walk around with a damn spider web on their phone.
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I'm like, when are you going to go get it fixed?
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This is an indication of you needing to get your shit together.
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Yeah, if your phone looks like a haunted house.
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Yeah, let's go into like, you know, see if this girl's going to be crazy.
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Like, a girl who can deal with a little crack, that's probably a sign of character.
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Just a little crack in the window, in a corner.
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But if she has to do like this and get the light just right, because it's like a damn, it's a full-on spider web.
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I have to scroll up to make a T. Because that part of the glass won't work anymore.
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What about the other way they're going with the flex phone?
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This isn't the one that broke, but this is another one that came out at CES, too.
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Samsung recalled the ones that are supposed to come out last week.
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Yeah, but the Samsung one had like a little teeny, I don't know.
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It looks like a little flat aquarium that we put sea monkeys in.
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It looks like one of them ones that's like a pillar in a shitty hotel.
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It looks thinner, and it looks like they just nailed the design better.
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Royale Flex Pie beats Samsung and Huawei to market.
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Yeah, they're making these things where you can flex them and bend them like a thousand times.
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I mean, I'm trying to imagine the advantages and disadvantages of watching porn on that thing.
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Yeah, because it's like, well, I see your ass, and then you've got to turn your phone upside down to see the rest of them.
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I'm kind of hoping it works so that the version 3 or 4 in a couple years is way better than these broken ones.
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Well, for sure, you're going to see people at concerts holding up what looks like 12-inch iPads because it's going to be these goddamn things in the future.
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I have a Tesla, and the Tesla has this huge screen.
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So I go from that to another car with a little tiny navigation screen.
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He pulls into my driveway, and I see the Thomas guy in his backseat.
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He's like, yeah, that navigation shit, what if that goes down?
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Back in the day, oh, E10. I know how to do that.
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You go E, and you go to 10. That's where I need to go.
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Fuck up and all of a sudden you're in a super Mexican community.
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So when you got rid of your Hemi, did you say, hey, this is from the Hemi guy?
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I think it was when gas was at its highest price.
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And people are like, no, I think we're moving on to other things.
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Well, I was married at the time, and that thing was hard.
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When I would leave and she'd have that car, it was just hard to...
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We have a small two-car garage, and it was hard to get that thing in there.
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But you drive a truck, and then you get into a little car like that.
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I drove it from the guy's house to my house and then it died.
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I think I drove it to my girlfriend's house and then I drove it back to my house and then it died.
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And then I called the guy up and I'm like, hey man, your fucking car died.
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And he came and gave me the money back and took his car.
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Yeah, then I had a 1968 442 that I wrapped around our telephone pole.
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Yeah, if you didn't know how to drive back then and you had like kind of balding tires and you hit some water, cars would just go sideways.
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I had that one for a few months, and then bang, fucked that one up.
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You could trick some really dumb girls with that.
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Like if you were only looking for really dumb gals.
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They make some cars with plastic windows just to save weight.
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We hydroplaned, spun it around a couple times, totaled it, hit another car that was parked at a body shop.
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Totally by slamming into a car that was just finished in a body show.
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I wonder how much that's preventing drunk driving.
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I think what, you know, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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Because if you're not doing that, then you're drinking and driving most likely.
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It's kind of a weird organization, both of them.
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It's like they're trying to figure out if they're employees or if they're contractors.
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This fact that you're just getting into someone's car.
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I mean, you assume if you get a limo that there's a background check.
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But you would get, like, New York City cab drivers, you'd get characters.
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You'd get either, like, angry white dudes or, like, guys who come from other countries that could tell you cool stories.
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But now, you know what you get when you get in a New York City cab driver?
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His company probably has their own little loop that they play.
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Jimmy Fallon, I mean, I've seen him on there many times.
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Remember when they used to do that HBO show, Taxi Cab Confessions?
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I was like, who the fuck is signing this release?
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It's like, I just want to be on TV. And they would say the worst stuff.
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Like, if you're fucked up on coke, and you get into a cab, and you start just talking shit about all the crazy sexual stuff that you like, and then afterwards, they're like, hey, you're going to be on HBO? You're like, fuck yeah, I am.
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Well, you don't tell them before they get there.
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I always wondered about the Catch a Predator show.
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And then there's like, is it entrapment even, you know?
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I support entrapment if it's like, hey, do you want to fuck a six-year-old?
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Okay, get in the cage, you fucking piece of shit.
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Yeah, there's a certain entrapment that I'm all for.
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Someone could talk you into fucking anybody under 18. Right.
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Maybe because they were proven guilty that you waived your rights just by being guilty.
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Bernie Sanders wants you to be able to vote even if you're a terrorist.
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He's like, anybody in jail for anything, he's like, you should still be able to vote.
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Like, what if you have, like, a maximum security prison somewhere, right?
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And these prisoners have everything to, like, they have all day, right?
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And they register to vote while they're in there.
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If you have a few hundred thousand prisoners, you literally can shift an election one way or the other.
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All you'd have to do is get into that prison and go, hey guys, here's the deal.
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And you can bribe them real easy with the little ketchup?
00:21:19.000
I'm not even paying attention to anything else.
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But if you could go into a prison, what's a giant prison population?
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Isn't there a giant one in Colorado that Joey always talks about?
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That's the one where they take the serial killers, they stuff them on the ground.
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It's probably some rinky-dinky ones, but I bet...
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Well, I have to be very specific about what I look up to find this answer.
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Known as Alcatraz of the South, the Louisiana State Penitentiary has an inmate population of 5,000.
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Yeah, so if you go a little bit less, then it might be a little bit higher.
00:23:41.000
Because we're killing you, but we're just killing you with nature.
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We're going to kill you with old age and shitty nutrition.
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It's like it might be more cruel to put someone into a small cage for 23 hours a day than it is to just kill them.
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That was my take on Chelsea Manning, who's now free.
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Yeah, she was naked, in a cage, by herself, for years.
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I think it was like, the whole, she was in solitary.
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We'll have to find this out once Jamie's done with this search.
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I'm like looking around, there's the one in California's male only, where Manson is.
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I thought I was going low, and I was off by a factor of ten.
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There's private ones, and I don't know if I can get the numbers on private.
00:24:45.000
Those dirty bastards stuff them in on top of each other.
00:24:48.000
If there were 30,000 inmates in one place, I mean, it would be hard to contain that and control that.
00:25:01.000
Yes, but the Chelsea Manning thing, she was in solitary confinement when she was still a dude.
00:25:12.000
Do you say Bradley or do you say Chelsea when she hadn't changed yet?
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Do you still say Bruce Jenner won the Olympics or do you say Caitlyn?
00:25:26.000
You know if you deadname him, you'll get kicked off of Twitter?
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If you decided at this stage of the game, you know what, fuck Hemis.
00:25:44.000
Reeves County Detention Complex in Pesos, Texas has a combined capacity of 3,763 prisoners in its three subcomplexes.
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If you've dug that far and you still can't get anything over 5,000.
00:26:09.000
And I started saying, hey, John Reap, what's it like wearing dresses?
00:26:30.000
In this day and age, I'm going to make you subscribe to the Alyssa Milano podcast.
00:27:13.000
People are probably mad if we probably know this.
00:27:15.000
New York City's Rikers Island has a population of 11,000, but I don't know if that means they're all prisoners or not.
00:27:31.000
It says they can accommodate up to 15,000 prisoners.
00:27:46.000
Like, if you did an arena, like 15,000 people is like Madison Square Garden.
00:27:58.000
So the Chelsea Manning thing, now she's free, but then she got locked up again for contempt of court.
00:28:04.000
But I think when she was locked up in solitary confinement, they took away her clothes.
00:28:08.000
They wouldn't let her have clothes because they thought she was suicidal.
00:28:37.000
And then, as a female, does he go to a female prison?
00:28:48.000
I mean, that's kind of a loophole that, let's say, if I know I'm going to prison and I got, like, a year before I get sentenced, I might just go ahead and get that sex change.
00:29:07.000
Do you see that male who identifies as a female just broke all these world records in weightlifting?
00:29:20.000
You went so progressive and so preposterous that we broke everything.
00:29:25.000
You have men that are winning women's world records in fucking weightlifting, which is like the dumbest shit for men and women to compete against.
00:29:33.000
If there's ever one thing, even the tennis argument, it's like, well, you know, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs.
00:29:40.000
Yeah, but Bobby Riggs was 55, she was 29, and they say that he threw the match because he bet against himself.
00:29:50.000
That was what I heard, but I would say that too if I lost.
00:30:26.000
That's a ridiculous amount of weight for a woman to lift.
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If you're going to be a real woman, a biological woman, excuse me, and lift that kind of weight, you have to be a real outlier.
00:30:44.000
One guy in the comments say, congratulations on your excellent performance.
00:30:56.000
You're the reason why this shit is happening in the first place, because people tolerate this.
00:31:01.000
If you had a daughter that trained her whole life to be a weightlifter, and she's really into it, and this fucking guy decides he identifies as a woman, and then comes I don't know how it's legal.
00:31:23.000
It has nothing to do with being open-minded or tolerant.
00:31:30.000
You're enabling people to do something that's preposterous.
00:31:33.000
This has nothing to do with being open-minded or kind to people.
00:31:39.000
I'm 100% for people doing whatever they want to do.
00:31:41.000
Just don't hurt anybody, and I'm cool with that.
00:31:46.000
Why not pretend you're a fox and go live in the forest?
00:31:51.000
You can't just decide you're a woman and compete with women.
00:32:07.000
I want to see that in the NFL. You know, you got like...
00:32:24.000
Or there should be, you know, some rules where you have to compete with the chromosome of your birth.
00:32:35.000
And if you're trans, maybe that should be something you can't do.
00:32:38.000
And particularly for girls who transition to boys, you know that school in Texas that won't let this girl who's transitioning to a boy, they won't let her compete with boys.
00:32:46.000
So they make her compete with girls, and she's on fucking testosterone.
00:32:51.000
So she's taking testosterone, or he's taking testosterone, whatever you want to say.
00:32:59.000
Zur is taking testosterone to become a boy, and then now is forced to wrestle with women, with young girls, in fact.
00:33:22.000
And do the ovaries sort of, like, start getting suspended in a...
00:33:28.000
I wonder if they remove those parts, you know, because they do hysterectomies on women when they have diseases.
00:33:33.000
I wonder if they do that when a man transitions from a woman.
00:33:41.000
Yeah, when you used to be a woman and now you're going to a dude.
00:33:45.000
I just can't wait to the day where they can do it genetically.
00:33:50.000
Like a man becomes a woman or a woman becomes a man.
00:33:57.000
If you knew that a woman took steroids for 30 years...
00:34:01.000
And develop insane tendon strength and muscle strength and then stop doing steroids.
00:34:06.000
It is a scientific fact that you are going to keep a very big percentage of those gains.
00:34:16.000
Whatever percentage that you would keep after you get off the steroids, that is significant.
00:34:22.000
And even if you're not currently on these performance enhancing drugs, your body has been...
00:34:29.000
Artificially boosted to the superior level through these drugs.
00:34:33.000
And you lose a lot of the feminine, you know, you lose the breasts.
00:34:39.000
Well, I mean, I think if you take estrogen, they'll probably come back.
00:35:04.000
Because everyone's supposed to be looking out for women.
00:35:06.000
If you're looking out for women, but you're also blindly progressive to the point where you're letting shit like this fly, well, now you're not looking out for women.
00:35:13.000
Because now women are in this weird position where you're putting them at an unfair disadvantage.
00:35:34.000
I talk about that subject a little bit too much.
00:35:43.000
It's a symptom of people just bending over backwards so hard to be progressive and open-minded.
00:35:51.000
That you're giving in to these extremists, these crazy people that are looking at this thing completely delusionally.
00:36:08.000
He's gonna win again because of shit like this.
00:36:16.000
His son, Donald Jr. Donald Jr. was with a friend of a friend of mine.
00:36:21.000
His name's Crispy, and he's a disabled veteran.
00:36:26.000
He's very able, I should say, but he's a wounded veteran.
00:36:41.000
And Instagram took it down for violating their terms of service.
00:36:49.000
A photo with him and Trump Jr. just standing there.
00:37:06.000
I actually reached out to him, because I follow him, and he follows me, and I was like, is this shit real?
00:37:16.000
I mean, this is a guy who served our country, too, and he's a great guy.
00:37:27.000
Yeah, and he just put it up there, and they said that they got him for terms of service, and they took it down, and he put it back up again.
00:37:37.000
When asked, Instagram says that they didn't do it, so I don't know.
00:37:40.000
So they didn't do it, but who took it down then?
00:37:42.000
However, an Instagram spokesperson told Fox News the post was reviewed but was not deleted by the company after it found the post did not violate their standards.
00:37:51.000
Spokesperson said that there are a number of reasons a post may no longer be available, including the account hoarder deletes either the account or the post.
00:37:58.000
He's saying he didn't do that, so it could have been something else.
00:38:04.000
Well, I know that this dude is not an attention whore, and he wouldn't do that and lie about it.
00:38:16.000
Sometimes it's a fortuitous glitch that looks like a massive conspiracy.
00:38:36.000
I mean, it's just so weird what's going on now.
00:38:43.000
Yeah, just like on Facebook, Twitter, all that stuff.
00:38:46.000
If it's something negative, I just, you know, that's gone.
00:38:50.000
I don't let people just start bashing me on that stuff.
00:38:54.000
Once I landed, I opened up Instagram and got a message that your post was taken down for violating Instagram guidelines.
00:39:13.000
It said, wounded veteran violated community standards by posting with Donald Trump Jr. He didn't post the actual notification, but he probably didn't even save it.
00:39:34.000
I mean, anybody could go rogue at any minute and just do what they want.
00:39:41.000
I would say someone could have just been fucking with them on the other way.
00:39:43.000
Someone could have just flagged it by a bunch of bots that just made it disappear to get a reaction like this.
00:39:55.000
But wouldn't Instagram review it manually before they delete it?
00:40:01.000
It happens on other accounts where it doesn't get reviewed that way and it just got taken down because it got flagged so many times.
00:40:06.000
Well, that's one thing that we did learn from talking to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.
00:40:17.000
If you could see everyone in America posting on Twitter right now, it'd be like...
00:40:26.000
I mean, imagine if you could see it all happening all at once.
00:40:31.000
A supernova explosion of ones and zeros just busting all over the place.
00:40:38.000
Who do you think, like, if you were to grab somebody's phone, the most popular person that gets tweeted the most and just looked at it, just looked at it, how fast would that go?
00:40:54.000
Do you follow a lot of other people or do you just put stuff out?
00:40:59.000
I just follow whenever I think someone's interesting.
00:41:02.000
Someone's got cool pictures, I follow that guy.
00:41:13.000
What's really funny is people get mad at you for certain people you follow.
00:41:16.000
Like people are like, you gotta stop following R. Kelly.
00:41:30.000
It doesn't matter if I follow him or if I don't.
00:41:38.000
UFC top welterweight former champion had a thing on his Instagram page of him watching...
00:41:44.000
R. Kelly getting interviewed, where he was denying that he knows how to hogtie people.
00:42:26.000
I follow R. Kelly for the same reason that I love Real Talk.
00:42:33.000
If you ever watch that video, Real Talk, we've played it on the podcast multiple times.
00:42:38.000
Real Talk is one of the greatest unintentional comedies that's ever been created.
00:42:45.000
It's an R. Kelly song where he's in an argument with his girlfriend on the phone.
00:42:48.000
And while he's in an argument with his girlfriend on the phone, he's like getting his hair done and shit.
00:42:57.000
And there's one part where he goes, Bitch, I wish you would burn my motherfucking clothes.
00:43:06.000
Bitch, I wish you would burn my motherfucking clothes.
00:43:14.000
Listen, I absolutely feel for any person that he's victimized.
00:43:41.000
Trifling is the best African-American saying of all time.
00:43:52.000
They own that word as much as they own the N-word.
00:43:59.000
Yeah, that's why white people are not allowed to use it.
00:44:27.000
How many people do you think had to look it up before Webster had to, like, answer this question?
00:44:37.000
Lacking in significance or solid worth, such as A, frivolous, trifling.
00:45:03.000
Don't bring your ass over here with a trifling fellow.
00:45:10.000
Shit, I was going to say something else, but I totally forgot.
00:45:17.000
He did an album where it was a lot of just talking.
00:45:28.000
I think he did, like, Aziz Ansari did a bit on it.
00:45:33.000
It might have been about Trapped in the Closet.
00:45:35.000
Trapped in the Closet is great, but it can't fuck with Real Talk.
00:45:41.000
Have you seen Weird Al Yankovic's Trapped in a drive-thru.
00:45:48.000
It's the same length as R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.
00:45:54.000
And it's all about being trapped in a McDonald's drive-thru because the person in front of him is taking too long.
00:46:01.000
The fact that he did the whole song is what got me.
00:46:19.000
I mean, I remember when Michael Jackson's Beat It came out, and he had Eat It.
00:46:58.000
I remember listening when I was a kid, but they played all these weird, goofball, nerdy songs.
00:47:12.000
He's got so, I mean, it's a giant body of work.
00:47:36.000
Like that one, you just seem so ridiculous if you try to use it.
00:47:46.000
My daughter is watching these YouTube videos of this...
00:47:52.000
There's this young gay fellow that does makeup tutorials.
00:48:02.000
You know, he probably gets more views than any network show that's ever been created.
00:48:10.000
Looks like he's like 20. What do you say, Jamie?
00:48:15.000
The last thing that popped in my head during Coachella, he got accused of being in this viral video that happened.
00:48:20.000
It wasn't him, but the Ferris wheel at Coachella, have you ever seen that?
00:48:24.000
It's a big famous thing that people take pictures in front of.
00:48:27.000
During a concert, you could see a silhouette of somebody getting head in there, and it's two guys.
00:48:33.000
It's a very vivid video that went super viral on Twitter that night.
00:48:49.000
My daughter sits in front of the TV cackling watching it.
00:49:04.000
I think what she was laughing at, though, in all fairness, was he was making fun of someone, subscribers, 16 million people.
00:49:14.000
I think he was making fun of people that put on too much makeup.
00:49:18.000
So he was going crazy with the makeup, but she thought it was really funny.
00:49:22.000
16 million people, and he's doing makeup tutorials.
00:49:28.000
It's like, there's an audience from all kinds of shit like this that you would have never expected.
00:49:36.000
And because of the access, Because on-demand access, especially through a computer, it's so easy.
00:49:52.000
NBC would never say, hey, that young guy, let's get that guy to do a makeup show.
00:49:56.000
They'd be like, get the fuck out of the office.
00:50:05.000
It's like, what rabbit hole would YouTube send you down if you typed in this and just let it keep going on its own?
00:50:13.000
Those algorithms, the real problem is people think that a lot of those algorithms are essentially designed to get you angry.
00:50:23.000
Get you pissed off so you watch the next thing.
00:50:30.000
Yeah, this is the problem with illegal immigration.
00:50:33.000
And then, you know, next thing you know, you're just more and more angry.
00:50:37.000
That's like the argument with Facebook, too, is that...
00:50:40.000
They're trying to figure out what gets people to engage.
00:50:43.000
And so the algorithm realizes what you engage with, and then that's what they show you more of.
00:50:49.000
And what gets people to engage is shit that makes them mad.
00:51:12.000
Well, you know, I don't do much of the fighting, so when I see it, it's like, oh, this is interesting.
00:51:23.000
Not if it's stuck, it's obviously someone's about to die like that.
00:51:30.000
Well, the best ones are when someone deserves it.
00:51:34.000
When someone's being a real dick, and someone's like, listen, man, you're being a dick.
00:51:41.000
It was a, I want to say like an old Middle Eastern couple that are on a subway.
00:51:46.000
And this dude's like smacking his wife in the face like that.
00:51:49.000
And this other guy, he's across from him and he's recording it.
00:51:55.000
And he walked over there and said, he told him like eight times to stop.
00:52:07.000
Okay, it's like a bus, and some guy's running his mouth to this old white guy who's obviously like an ex-Vietnam vet, and he's telling him, like, just leave it alone, man.
00:52:18.000
And he comes down there, and then he walks up to the front, and he just beats the shit out of him.
00:52:23.000
And you just see blood coming out of his face, and it's like, you know, he started this.
00:52:28.000
The guy was walking away, and then he went back up there.
00:52:37.000
How many, like, that's the thing about, like, a guy smacking his wife in public.
00:52:43.000
Like, how often does he smack her that he's so confident that he'll just smack her in front of everybody?
00:52:49.000
Like, it must be, he must think it's acceptable and everyone else is cool with it.
00:52:54.000
Or he must think that he could just get away with things.
00:52:58.000
Sometimes people just think they can get away with things.
00:53:00.000
Yeah, there was not many people on that bus in this video.
00:53:04.000
I think he felt like that guy wasn't even paying attention to him.
00:53:07.000
Or that most people are just going to be too scared to say anything.
00:53:15.000
Because that is the best argument for the end of all privacy.
00:53:18.000
Is that no one would ever be able to do anything like that because the whole world would be watching.
00:53:25.000
It depends on what kind of action you could take.
00:53:30.000
If you could literally see everything that's happening at any time everywhere in the world.
00:53:38.000
Well, now that everyone's got cams, so it's like...
00:53:43.000
Then they're going to have those fucking foldable things.
00:53:45.000
You're keeping the people honest now a little bit?
00:53:57.000
It was like in 1961 or 62 about how abhorrent secrecy is.
00:54:05.000
And they were basically talking about secret societies and secret, you know, pacts in the government.
00:54:10.000
He was basically, I think a lot of it was him talking about some of the shady shit that he experienced in intelligence agencies.
00:54:17.000
But when you have, like, kings or when you have people that are in power, like, how do they wield that power?
00:54:24.000
One of the ways they wield that power, it's all secrecy.
00:54:26.000
If they want to execute people, they want to kill people or torture people.
00:54:35.000
And they're beating the shit out of him and torturing him.
00:54:39.000
They're just isolated from the rest of the world.
00:54:41.000
And who knows what the hell he's doing over there.
00:54:44.000
We just know the stuff that he allows us to know.
00:54:48.000
Well, that's the perfect example of power and secrecy, right?
00:54:53.000
Like, they just take you and make you disappear.
00:54:59.000
They're never close to the tip of the iceberg on that.
00:55:05.000
I'm sure people are killing people for someone right now.
00:55:14.000
It's also weird what we'll accept people dying from.
00:55:20.000
I was listening to this podcast Where this wolf lady, she's a wolf biologist, she was talking to my friend Steve Rinella on the Meat Eater podcast, and she was talking about how we accept people getting killed by mountain lions.
00:55:41.000
But the moment that people start getting killed by wolves in America, people are going to get furious.
00:55:47.000
Yeah, because they reintroduced wolves in 1994. That's right.
00:55:57.000
Basically, there was two really interesting things about the podcast.
00:56:00.000
A lot of really interesting things, but two that really stood out was one that...
00:56:05.000
These people, they reintroduced these animals in 1994, but there were already some wolves here.
00:56:10.000
And the wolves would have probably eventually made it down there.
00:56:18.000
Because of the fact that they brought them in, and it wasn't just a natural fixture, we have this thing like, oh, somebody ruined this.
00:56:28.000
The other thing is that they number them instead of name them.
00:56:32.000
Because if you name them, it's like, oh, there's Dolores.
00:57:01.000
It was a real kitten, and it had been separated from its mom.
00:57:06.000
And it was really, really small and really young.
00:57:25.000
I think maybe it was starving to death and it took a chance to try to kill him.
00:57:31.000
Which, still, a 30-pound cat is fucking terrifying.
00:57:37.000
Because I think something had ate a lot of it by the time.
00:57:51.000
I was going to ask if you saw this thing going around the internet about this wolf pack being tracked.
00:58:06.000
They all establish their territory, they mark their territory, and they all respect it.
00:58:14.000
Minnesota has a shitload of wolves, apparently.
00:58:16.000
What if it keeps going and it's a picture of Jimi Hendrix?
00:58:19.000
Wisconsin has a shitload of wolves, apparently.
00:58:30.000
And it's a lot of woods up there and just land.
00:58:47.000
Because it was just getting dusk and I was in Alberta.
00:58:56.000
But if you see a wolf, the spooky thing is, what are they doing?
00:59:11.000
Comes out of the woods and walks across the street.
00:59:37.000
Russia's had real, legitimate problems with wolves.
00:59:43.000
They would get together because they were starving.
00:59:45.000
So they'd get like 100 wolves who'd form a super pack.
00:59:49.000
Because they could kind of do whatever the fuck they wanted once they got that big.
00:59:55.000
A bunch of wolves would take down a horse easy.
00:59:58.000
Yeah, but it's just the idea that the super packs, they realized it was too hard to just take over shit with all these pesky people and their guns in houses.
01:00:43.000
It was this program founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 40s.
01:00:48.000
It's called People to People, where they send the youth of America to other countries to hang out with that youth to promote world peace.
01:00:55.000
And certain kids from high schools are selected, and you go to Washington, D.C. first for three days.
01:01:02.000
They debrief you, and then you go to another country.
01:01:09.000
And I told Bert Kreischer that too, you know, because he has the whole machine story.
01:01:14.000
I said, I feel like I can't tell my Russian story because you've owned it so much with your machine story that if I do anything about this, then it's going to look like, oh, okay, you too, huh?
01:01:30.000
I kind of got in trouble because I was trading illegally on the black market over there.
01:01:44.000
This dude I was talking to, it was after a function that we were at, you know, where you would go to some town, some village, and they'd greet you with bread and salt, and they would dance around, and you would just...
01:02:04.000
So this kid's trying to teach me Russian cuss words and I thought he was pretty cool.
01:02:08.000
So I had a bunch of these ink pens that my mom gave me from a phone company where she worked.
01:02:25.000
And I give him a pin and he gives me his address.
01:02:28.000
And what I don't know is this dude's already kind of in trouble with cops over there for trading illegally on the black market.
01:02:39.000
No one saw me from my group get grabbed, by the way, because I was off doing my own little thing with this dude, right?
01:02:46.000
So we go into his office in this hotel, and they're just cussing each other in Russian, and I don't know what the hell's going on.
01:03:03.000
And so, he's basically my translator, this guy, to the cop.
01:03:07.000
I'm like, hey man, I'm with this group, you know, I don't know what's going on.
01:03:13.000
And now it's just me and this Russian cop, and I'm looking at him, and he's looking at me, and he looks at my bag with all these ink pens, and he's like, he goes like this, he's like, let me see, you know.
01:03:25.000
He's like, oh, cool, and he puts it in his desk.
01:03:27.000
And he goes away, and he comes back with this big-ass Russian pendant sickle and hammer thing with wings coming out.
01:03:38.000
So he technically arrested me for trading, and then he traded with me.
01:03:49.000
It was fun to see all that shit, though, right before it fell.
01:03:51.000
Did you see, like, lines in the street for food or anything crazy like that?
01:04:06.000
Went swimming in the Nippa River, right close to where Chernobyl was, like 50 miles from Chernobyl.
01:04:16.000
Definitely some poverty going on here and there.
01:04:20.000
I didn't see these lines around buildings for toilet paper or anything like that.
01:04:50.000
That's got to be a hell of a flight, too, right?
01:04:54.000
We went to Germany first on a layover there for like three hours.
01:04:59.000
I couldn't even tell you how long that thing was.
01:05:15.000
There's so many great fighters and wrestlers that have come out of...
01:05:46.000
So is that someone that's already famous over here?
01:06:28.000
Because everybody who jokes around says he's 5'11 or that he's 5'7 or 5'5.
01:06:52.000
In high school, I always put like 5'10", 5'11".
01:06:58.000
And as people get bigger and bigger, these kids today that are hitting puberty when they're six...
01:07:09.000
They probably accentuated his height for that scene.
01:07:15.000
Yeah, but that looks like he's almost like a foot taller than him, doesn't it?
01:07:18.000
Yeah, they probably had him in heels and had Sylvester Stallone barefoot or something for that shot.
01:07:26.000
Didn't they say, like, at one point during this movie, Rocky said, go ahead and hit me for real one time.
01:07:35.000
Because they were always like, you know, they're like an inch apart in the swings.
01:07:52.000
Lundgren put me in the hospital during Rocky IV. Yeah, I believe it.
01:08:03.000
He also has, like, screws in his neck from doing the Expendables.
01:08:13.000
He's put in intensive care for five days because of that.
01:08:23.000
The insurance company would not pay out until after they saw the footage of the incident.
01:08:32.000
He hit my heart so hard that it banged against my ribs and started to swell.
01:08:50.000
If you watch him in his movies, he's obviously trained.
01:08:59.000
What if Sylvester Stallone wouldn't let anybody see it?
01:09:08.000
He's like that lady who steps on grapes, who falls down and goes, Ow!
01:09:14.000
You can never be an action hero again if somebody sees you cry.
01:09:17.000
If somebody sees you legitimately cry from a liver shot, like, whoa!
01:09:25.000
Shitting yourself is probably the most embarrassing thing a person can do, right?
01:09:31.000
Like a guy who's known for being handsome and debonair and a badass.
01:09:35.000
Yeah, just can't make it to the toilet in time.
01:09:39.000
Shit yourself in your car while you're driving.
01:09:48.000
There's going to be a time in your life if you eat risky.
01:09:53.000
Think of the most handsome person in the world.
01:10:13.000
Was it the Woody Harrelson movie where he played the bowler?
01:10:35.000
Dumb and Dumber has a big shit scene, too, with Jeff Daniels.
01:10:41.000
Yeah, where he's hanging onto the toilet seat lid like he's going to get shot to orbit.
01:10:48.000
Yeah, because Jim Carrey was stealing his girl.
01:11:01.000
That's one of my all-time favorite comedy movies.
01:11:05.000
I remember loving it, but I haven't seen it in so long.
01:11:09.000
I'm scared to watch movies that I love again and see them in the light of 2019 and go, ew.
01:11:33.000
Someone in hair and makeup had to go like, I'm sure that was his decision, we're going to make your hair just fan out randomly.
01:11:42.000
Donald Trump's hair before Donald Trump had it.
01:11:44.000
He had like a little Trump thing going on there.
01:11:48.000
There's a professional bowler now in the PBA that has a full-on orange afro right now.
01:11:55.000
Yeah, see, if you're a bowler, you gotta do something like that.
01:11:58.000
You gotta wear, like, purple, glittery clothes or some shit.
01:12:15.000
I mean, how the fuck else do you get attention when you're a bowler?
01:12:19.000
Like, that might be the only way to save bowling.
01:12:21.000
They might have to, like, go, like, roller derby and just knock into each other while they're bowling.
01:12:41.000
We were talking about the financial opportunities of bowling.
01:13:43.000
I get annoyed at the guys who, like, curve it really good.
01:13:46.000
Like, it goes way over here and it just whips real fast.
01:13:59.000
To me, bowling was always like breaking in pool.
01:14:04.000
It's like, yeah, it's cool to break the balls, but the real cool thing is to play the game.
01:14:09.000
You're just breaking the balls over and over again.
01:14:21.000
You're just knocking down the pins in the exact same order.
01:14:25.000
And I know the combinations are different and the way they collide and the way you impact is different, but it's still the same thing.
01:14:38.000
He bowled leagues and he had trophies in his house and shit.
01:14:42.000
But when I was a little kid, I was analyzing bowling.
01:14:52.000
Dude, there's a thing that they have on the East Coast in Boston that they don't even have anywhere else.
01:15:09.000
Hometown Ohio, they've got a few places, actually, gigantic bars that have all these lanes for this thing, yeah.
01:15:17.000
I was looking down on that, because I came from my grandfather in New Jersey who bowled regular bowling like a fucking American.
01:15:24.000
And then I'm over, what's this candle pin bullshit?
01:15:26.000
I'm like, would you guys steal this from Finland or something?
01:15:43.000
Well, I mean it is, but it's way smaller and it's really just like a bar game.
01:15:47.000
They have like five lanes or ten lanes and you can Oh.
01:15:53.000
Candlepin Bowling in New England, they'll have bowling alleys.
01:16:08.000
It only works on the East Coast for some reason.
01:16:18.000
It's actually way smaller than I was thinking in my head.
01:16:41.000
High Lie, I think, is one of the most corrupt games.
01:16:47.000
He was explaining to me how High Lie works, that it's all about gambling.
01:16:52.000
And the only reason why it works is that people are betting on the games.
01:16:55.000
And so because people are betting on the games, they get these guys, and these guys are just fucking missing on purpose.
01:17:04.000
If you're a highlight player and you're like, Fuck you, Joe Rogan!
01:17:09.000
Hey, I get my information from the church of what's happening now.
01:17:15.000
It looks like somebody with one long, freaky nail.
01:17:24.000
How much more fun would it be if he watched a baseball game where the pitcher just had that thing?
01:17:36.000
They're throwing it off the wall and then another guy catches it.
01:17:41.000
Somebody better get hit in the face pretty quick.
01:17:45.000
Even when he falls down, it's like that guy, he's falling down like he's trying to get a foul.
01:18:06.000
You know, though, I think it's catching on to the NFL and the NBA. They're flopping?
01:18:22.000
What's the guy's name with the big crazy beard?
01:18:46.000
So he had it up on his Twitter and I watched it.
01:18:50.000
The difference between him when he's challenged and he throws a free throw versus unchallenged.
01:19:00.000
Meaning someone's trying to block him or he has a free open shot.
01:19:03.000
When he has a free open shot, he just jumps up in the air and does his three-pointer.
01:19:08.000
But when he's challenged, he throws his legs up to hit the other person so he can fall down on his ass.
01:19:20.000
He's forcing contact with the person so that he can fall down.
01:19:34.000
And this guy analyzes several shots where he does this.
01:19:42.000
And when he's contested, he jumps up in the air.
01:19:44.000
And look, he throws his body weight forward and then falls down.
01:19:50.000
Yeah, they're saying, like, if you look at the way his body moves, when someone's contesting him, he moves and leaning his legs towards them to make contact with them.
01:20:03.000
See, the problem is that pencil-neck dork fucking...
01:20:08.000
No, he's specifically known, especially in the last two or three years, for getting himself to the free throw line at a way higher clip than almost anybody in history.
01:20:19.000
You can't fault him for that because he's using the rules of the game to play the game.
01:20:24.000
Right, so who is this guy who's examining this?
01:20:29.000
So the head sports center guy is analyzing this and he's realizing that I don't know.
01:21:00.000
There's a big thing that happened over the weekend in their game because you have to give the guy a space to land because a couple years ago there were a couple defensive players that got in trouble for hurting people.
01:21:09.000
They were getting their ankles turned, ruining their career, which is then ruining this team's chances to win a championship.
01:21:18.000
And the referees all of a sudden didn't call this on Sunday.
01:21:22.000
The very first time all year they stopped calling it.
01:21:26.000
And they stop calling it because people are taking advantage of it?
01:21:29.000
Why they stop calling it is the big question that people are literally talking about for 48 hours.
01:21:35.000
Bringing up the question of, like, are the officials really involved in the game?
01:21:49.000
Well, yeah, because it's going to ruin the NFL. Do you look at it differently?
01:21:53.000
Do you look at it differently than you did before that concussion movie?
01:21:59.000
I've got hit so hard that I've seen stars and that kind of stuff.
01:22:04.000
I don't look at it differently, to answer your question.
01:22:15.000
There was less concussions because you would not lead with your head.
01:22:19.000
Now you have a weapon on your head and people have used it as such.
01:22:34.000
You really should, but you'd have to change so much.
01:22:36.000
You'd have to change so much in the way people...
01:22:40.000
The way they practice, the way they set up plays.
01:22:45.000
I think the perception of the helmet being safer fucked the game up.
01:22:51.000
I used to think that bare knuckle boxing, that they should have bare knuckles in the UFC, but then I've been watching this bare knuckle boxing stuff, and people get cut up so bad, now I'm thinking, you know what?
01:23:12.000
And the shell is what made it, you know, you used it as a weapon.
01:23:16.000
That's literally the only way you're going to be able to stop some of this brain damage.
01:23:20.000
And you're still not going to be able to stop at all.
01:23:23.000
They say these guys are getting brain damage from getting hit in the chest.
01:23:26.000
They're getting hit in the chest and their head snaps back and their brain's swashing around inside their skull.
01:23:31.000
Well, they're changing, I think, Maybe like in the little league now, it's like you can't do tackle football until a certain age.
01:23:40.000
So now it's all flag football until a certain age, I think.
01:23:56.000
Well, it would be amazing if they ever came up with something that definitively fixed it, like some stem cell treatment or something like that that regenerated brain tissue and bring you back to your normal state.
01:24:06.000
If they do that, then we don't have to worry about it anymore.
01:24:12.000
I think that's a very complex question of how to regenerate neural tissue, brain tissue, how to get rid of all those abscesses and all those things that you see in those people's brains that have CTE. They develop these holes in their brain.
01:24:38.000
Yeah, but you could have been a good runner back.
01:24:43.000
Well, so the fastest guys are small and just, you know...
01:24:47.000
I was fast kicking and punching and stuff, but I wasn't really that fast a runner.
01:24:52.000
But when I was in high school, when I was wrestling, they were trying to tell me, like the coach, Coach Murphy, he was also the wrestling coach, he was also the football coach, And he's like, bro, come on.
01:25:16.000
The hardest I've ever been hit was by a little dude in practice.
01:25:22.000
And he was a DB. And it was a practice, so I was like third string running back in there.
01:25:34.000
And this kid, he had a running start, like 20-yard head start.
01:25:37.000
And it was like he came up from out of the ground and went, wow, and knocked me back up.
01:25:43.000
And that's the hardest I've ever been hit was by a little guy.
01:25:50.000
You're like a human torpedo with a hard helmet on.
01:25:55.000
But you know how fast a really good athlete can run and just think of all that mass behind them and just crash!
01:26:04.000
The way those guys get hit and the amount of force behind them getting hit is probably unlike anything in sports other than a car accident, right?
01:26:12.000
Other than a NASCAR. Yeah, NASCAR, I think they should bring, they should, you know how hockey, you can still fight in hockey.
01:26:24.000
Yeah, if there's a caution, everyone else is lapping, you got two guys to have a beef, pull over, get out of the car.
01:26:30.000
In the middle of the infield, we have a wrestling rink.
01:26:33.000
And it's like full on, let's go get in the rink.
01:26:36.000
We'll give you two minutes, and then if you win that match, maybe you get a little time shaving off, you know.
01:26:45.000
I'd watch that more if it were like half wrestling, half wrestling.
01:26:59.000
You watch Formula One, you're like, well, these guys are going way faster.
01:27:12.000
These guys' NASCAR, a lot of that happens, and it's fine.
01:27:23.000
I mean, anybody's driving a fucking car going fast can die.
01:27:34.000
And they show a GT3 car, like a Porsche, going around this car really fast.
01:27:40.000
And then they show the same exact path being taken by a Formula 1 car.
01:28:09.000
See how the line, the perfect racing line is cut into the groove?
01:28:18.000
I think the fastest I've ever been is like maybe 115. You ever been on a racetrack?
01:28:35.000
And just being down there and seeing that and standing there next to it like, whoa, I didn't know it was that steep.
01:28:48.000
They bump wheels up there and collide and fucking spin out on each other.
01:29:19.000
If you would be nervous if you were on a skateboard on that thing...
01:29:21.000
You have to go a certain speed just to stay up on the...
01:29:29.000
NASCAR is so American because it's loud as fuck.
01:29:39.000
Even if you have a really nice car that's supposed to be the model that that car is, the NASCAR car looks gross.
01:29:55.000
It's a fascinating piece of equipment, though, that we've decided to make these things that just drive really fast and then hurl them around this circle, this oval, over and over and over again.
01:30:14.000
Back in the day, it was just a couple of good old boys with moonshot trying to outrun the cops.
01:30:26.000
Isn't that funny that that's where it all came from?
01:30:28.000
These guys are trying to figure out how to get the fuck away from cops.
01:30:34.000
You'd think they had to chase people in Caprice Classics.
01:30:45.000
Oh my god, they make them wear those stupid shoes.
01:31:21.000
I'll bring back the name Convertible and NASCAR. I want to see these dudes' faces.
01:31:34.000
They probably didn't have air conditioning back then.
01:31:38.000
If it's on fire, it's easier to get out when you don't have a roof.
01:31:42.000
Yeah, those people probably died in those things all the time.
01:31:46.000
Like, if you were a car racer back then, you were going to crash.
01:31:51.000
You're not going to keep it together every time.
01:31:54.000
What's the fastest you think you've been in a vehicle?
01:32:16.000
The newest cars, though, the problem is they're in this horsepower war where every year they have to have a faster 0-60.
01:32:25.000
And now they've gotten to the point where they're ridiculously fast.
01:32:32.000
Like, if you just bought a regular car today, it'd be faster than a muscle car was in the 1970s.
01:32:47.000
It would probably handle better and drive faster than any supercar from 1970. Right.
01:33:05.000
Isn't electric cars zero to 60 way quicker than gas?
01:33:13.000
Instant power, and that one has a four-wheel drive, the Tesla Model S P100D. It's got four-wheel drive, and so it's got an engine in the front and an engine in the rear, and it flies.
01:33:36.000
They're making a faster one that goes 0-60 in 1.9 seconds.
01:33:45.000
Are you still living in LA? Where are you at now?
01:33:56.000
My career has always been like a roller coaster.
01:34:10.000
I bought it for a certain amount, and then it gained value.
01:34:15.000
And I thought, well, if I'm going to do this, now is the time to pull the trigger.
01:34:32.000
It's not like I need to be here for every little audition.
01:34:40.000
The second audition, yeah, you fly up for it, but getting your foot in the door of that tape, anybody can do that now.
01:34:48.000
That's if you want to act, and you do so much stand-up on the road, there's really no reason to be here unless you just want to perform at the store all the time.
01:34:57.000
And I moved back to Hickory, and I was going to get myself a nice lake house in Lake Hickory.
01:35:03.000
Still want to do that, but then as soon as I get home, you know, Thanksgiving, Dad has a stroke.
01:35:18.000
I thought maybe, because we were going to eat Thanksgiving dinner late.
01:35:24.000
thing we were doing to get other people in the house.
01:35:27.000
And so he was complaining all day about not eating.
01:35:39.000
Nosedives, but just head first right onto the hardwood floor, and it was like, boom, you hear like a thump.
01:35:48.000
It's, you know, he's making a thing about like a little blood sugar or something.
01:35:51.000
And I was kind of laughing, and my brother's like, no, he hit really hard.
01:35:55.000
His head hit that floor way too hard for that to be a joke.
01:35:58.000
And then you walk over to him, and Arms curling up, one eye's going like that, and it's like, this is a stroke.
01:36:06.000
And we called 911. They came pretty quick, but he suffered some serious brain damage right here.
01:36:14.000
But I was, in a weird way, happy that I was at home when this happened because How we're still out here and that shit happen, I'd be hating life.
01:36:25.000
But the fact that I'm there and able to help mom out, going through all this whole thing.
01:36:31.000
Because she's got glaucoma and she's got brittle bones.
01:36:37.000
And the fact that we were in the house and able to help...
01:36:50.000
Yeah, like that fat chick in Total Recall, you know.
01:37:05.000
So have you toured at all since that, or have you just been...
01:37:09.000
I didn't take on extra gigs, but I didn't cancel the ones I had.
01:37:13.000
So the ones that I could drive to, definitely, I was just, well, let me go...
01:37:21.000
But I definitely didn't take on anything for, you know, since Thanksgiving that it wasn't already there.
01:37:33.000
And they showed us the X-ray, you know, the MRI of the brain damage that happened.
01:37:39.000
Now he keeps getting UTI infections because he has a catheter.
01:37:44.000
Because it also, it doesn't just fuck with your muscles.
01:37:49.000
So his bladder's got to relearn how to operate.
01:37:52.000
So he's got a catheter, you know, and that just opens you up for UTI infections a lot.
01:37:58.000
And those, I don't know if you know, they're like UTI infections when you're older.
01:38:01.000
Like, it really devastates you because you hallucinate.
01:38:07.000
And it's weird being in there and, you know, he was like, hey, make sure that bear's not out there.
01:38:13.000
Like, he keeps hearing or think there's a bear outside the window.
01:38:35.000
He used to be able to just make a joke about that.
01:38:43.000
Still going through rehab, occupational therapy, physical therapy.
01:38:46.000
Do they think that he'll be able to recover some function on his left side?
01:38:49.000
I think, you know, they always want to dangle a little bit of light of hope at the end of the chart.
01:39:07.000
Yeah, I mean, you know, so we're just still, we're still doing all of it.
01:39:14.000
51. Yeah, it could happen to anybody at any age.
01:39:28.000
They say that cigarettes contribute pretty heavily to strokes.
01:39:31.000
He used to smoke a lot when he was younger and then quit when he was in his late 40s.
01:39:40.000
Back then when you'd smoke at 12 years old or something.
01:39:45.000
I don't know if Singleton smoked, but I do know Luke Perry did.
01:39:49.000
Yeah, and this woman that I talked to who was a neurologist was telling me that that's a significant factor.
01:39:55.000
It raises your chances of stroke pretty significantly.
01:40:01.000
My idea is to come out here, you know, for pilot season.
01:40:27.000
He's such a nice guy that when he does that show, it seems like it's okay.
01:40:35.000
Like him hosting it, it makes it seem like it's okay.
01:40:38.000
And Jeff Ross being there and sort of like letting everybody know kind of what the rules kind of are, you know?
01:40:57.000
There was so little roasting going on before Jeff Ross.
01:41:03.000
Yeah, it was like old Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, that kind of stuff, you know?
01:41:11.000
Those guys are so mean to each other, but they were all friends.
01:41:17.000
It's like those roasts, there weren't that many of them, and they were friends.
01:41:27.000
A lot of these roasts now, it's like, who am I doing?
01:41:34.000
I feel like I've got to get to know you before I can really bust your balls.
01:41:47.000
But I think it's a great showcase for joke writing.
01:41:53.000
The best ones are the quickest right to the joke.
01:41:57.000
This guy last night had pulled out a laptop and was trying to do some voice created, like, you know, Stephen Hawking voice or something.
01:42:12.000
The next guy had like, it was like four words, pam, pam, pam.
01:42:19.000
See, I'm like, I get up there, I'm a goofball, I tell stories, I'm animated, I move around, but I envy those guys who can go, ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.
01:42:52.000
Do you remember, like, when you first started out, there was, like, a way you thought you had to be?
01:42:58.000
Did you do anything, like, cringy that you look back on now?
01:43:04.000
I mean, I used to come out, like, I used to dance a lot.
01:43:17.000
And the crowd's like, okay, a lot of energy here.
01:43:22.000
Something from Jock Jams Volume 2. You know, snap, I got the power.
01:43:36.000
I do a shovel dance, a rake dance, a mop dance.
01:43:54.000
It was any guy washing women's laundry in the 1800s dance.
01:44:20.000
That's in a theater right outside of Hickory, a place in Lenore.
01:44:35.000
It's like one of the best clubs on the East Coast, they used to say.
01:44:44.000
Brad Reeder sold it to the guys that own Helium.
01:45:11.000
And it also can kind of ruin you in a weird way if you start out at a club where everyone kills all the time.
01:45:26.000
And then you go to some other little shitty one-nighter.
01:45:46.000
So you get a mix of like, you know, your politicians, your college professors, your students, and right outside of it's the rest of the world.
01:46:08.000
I remember the first time I did a gig outside of a comedy club where it was just a bar.
01:46:19.000
And we're like, oh yeah, so we're here for the show.
01:46:22.000
The comedians are like, oh shit, that's tonight, huh?
01:46:32.000
And then you have to tell people to stop playing pool so you can tell your jokes.
01:46:45.000
First one outside of a club was like a one-nighter pool hall.
01:46:53.000
Luckily, I only had to do like 10 minutes, but that 10 minutes seemed like an hour.
01:46:58.000
Charlie Goodnights also was a club that had been around for so long.
01:47:03.000
Because there's so many comics that come through there.
01:47:10.000
So the people that lived in that town, they were used to good comedy.
01:47:58.000
He said, hey, I'd love to open for you and, you know, do the road and all that stuff.
01:48:01.000
I said, sure, just show up at these gigs and you want to go up?
01:48:10.000
And then that night he goes, well, I'm just going to drive back to Raleigh tonight.
01:48:15.000
It's like a three-hour drive, and he died on the way there.
01:48:20.000
Some drunk driver hit him, and he flipped his car, and he didn't have his seatbelt on because he didn't have the extender.
01:48:29.000
And so no matter how big you are, if you're flipping that car, you're going out the window.
01:48:33.000
And so it killed him, and his headshot hangs right there above that door.
01:48:38.000
And so that's one of many people on that wall that is no longer with us.
01:49:08.000
That one's not as great to me because it's long and boxy.
01:49:12.000
And the further you get back to the bar area, the more chances you have to lose them back there.
01:49:29.000
And everybody just has a good time at Zaney's, man.
01:49:39.000
But I was bummed out when they lost the punchline in Atlanta.
01:49:52.000
It had a small balcony, but they just packed people on top of each other.
01:49:57.000
So you didn't have room to be, you know, on your phone or talking.
01:50:04.000
You had to walk through the crowd to get to the stage.
01:50:07.000
Unless you hung out in that one weird green room the whole time.
01:50:14.000
And then it had that sign on the back wall that said, quit trying to be Hicks.
01:50:19.000
Because there was all sorts of writing on the wall.
01:50:21.000
Which is weird in Atlanta because we're all kind of Hicks.
01:50:28.000
Remember there was an upstairs area, too, where you could look down?
01:50:32.000
Small little balcony where the DJ was up there or whatever.
01:50:36.000
And you had, like, that's where their office was.
01:50:42.000
I did a good practical joke at that place one time.
01:50:51.000
We were sharing a condo somewhere, I think in Myrtle Beach.
01:50:54.000
And as a joke, I thought it'd be funny when he's leaving to put a condom wrapper in his bag.
01:51:21.000
Well, the first thing he did, this is Atlanta Punchline, he walked up to me, he's like, you motherfucker, you know what you did to me?
01:51:35.000
Maybe he'll find it as he's packing to go home.
01:51:44.000
And that stupid green room they have in that corner at the punchline, right?
01:51:51.000
If you just poke your head out, everybody can see you.
01:51:57.000
He goes, all right, here's what I'm going to do.
01:51:59.000
When you go on stage, because he was opening for me, I'm going to put mustard all over the doorknobs in here, okay?
01:52:05.000
And you're going to be in such a hurry to get out of there and go back to your stupid merch table that you're not even going to remember that I told you there's mustard all over this doorknob, and you're just going to grab mustard on your head.
01:52:15.000
It wasn't as good as me getting him with a condom, obviously, but he was right.
01:52:32.000
Well, not as close as I can be, but we're good.
01:52:37.000
He's got a new wife now, but not because of me.
01:53:27.000
I'd rather be in a hippie commune somewhere doing yoga every day.
01:53:40.000
That's on my playlist of working out when I get on the treadmill.
01:53:49.000
When I saw Cat Williams do his bit about you could have any stupid job, and if you hear that song, you do the best you can at it.
01:54:06.000
Especially the earlier stuff, all that Pimp Chronicles stuff.
01:54:14.000
When he was coming up, right when he was starting to blow up, his stuff was so good.
01:54:29.000
And then I also do a soundtrack from Flash Gordon, Queen.
01:54:43.000
I go with movies that kind of inspired me when I was a kid and get that soundtrack.
01:54:47.000
And then I get on that elliptical machine, and now I'm doing the elliptical for the universe like Flash Gordon.
01:54:55.000
Did you ever watch the old Flash Gordon from the 1950s?
01:54:59.000
The first one I saw was the shitty one in the 80s.
01:55:03.000
I was on a plane, not really recently, I guess more like a couple years ago, and they had one of those video catalogs where you could just watch stuff.
01:55:13.000
And it had old TV shows, and it had Flash Gordon.
01:55:25.000
It's weird to watch what people thought space was going to be like and aliens.
01:55:31.000
I mean, I think Flash Gordon was probably from the 50s, right?
01:55:41.000
I found photos of the green room in the punchline.
01:55:47.000
I wish they would remake Flash Gordon and make it a comedy, but keep the soundtrack, because it's Queen.
01:56:00.000
Well, you're thinking of Flash Gordon the movie now.
01:56:16.000
People were going to be wearing weird neck collars in the future and belt buckles.
01:56:24.000
Pull up a video of it so you can watch a video because it's so weird to watch.
01:57:06.000
If I had a guess, I bet they made 50 or something like that.
01:57:18.000
Women back then all had flat butts, unless they did gymnastics.
01:57:50.000
You probably shouldn't do it right in front of the microphone like I did.
01:58:05.000
It's always weird seeing what people thought the future was going to be like once the future already hits.
01:58:16.000
They thought the first one was in 2000. Oh, yeah.
01:58:19.000
Yeah, like the future was 2015. Yeah, it was something along those lines.
01:58:32.000
Because it happened in 1985. And they went to...
01:58:44.000
Because he took that stupid sports almanac and bet on a bunch of shit.
01:58:47.000
I watched that a couple of years ago at a movie theater in Bozeman, Montana with my family.
01:58:52.000
They had like a Back to the Future night where they were playing it.
01:58:58.000
It's especially cool to see an old movie in a movie theater.
01:59:02.000
Like, I know they do those sometimes at certain movie theaters.
01:59:04.000
They'll have like, they'll screen an old movie.
01:59:07.000
I went to the Hollywood Bowl and watched Back to the Future, and they had an orchestra playing live.
01:59:15.000
The soundtrack, you know, during the movie, as it's happening, and you kind of forget that that shit's happening right now.
01:59:33.000
Yeah, Duncan Trussell used to host a show there.
01:59:39.000
There's like an inside place where you do stand-up.
01:59:47.000
Well, they have that one gigantic white wall, and they just project movies, and everyone sits on the lawn.
02:00:04.000
I was there watching Purple Rain, and Dave Chappelle was there.
02:00:10.000
They come out as a DJ. They do stuff before and after the movie.
02:00:13.000
Everyone dresses up like characters from the film.
02:00:33.000
There's this one, when he first makes his full face on film, right, in the movie, it takes a minute.
02:00:39.000
There's this one scene where Apollonia is walking off and he's mad and he just like whips around real fast and his hair comes and does that.
02:00:46.000
And then everybody in the cemetery was watching this in front of like 5,000 people.
02:01:08.000
It was the first time that I French kissed a girl and touched a boobie was in this movie.
02:01:42.000
You can get kicked off of Twitter for life, bitch.
02:01:47.000
Well, I'm on there, but I don't know if Facebook seems to be where my people are.
02:02:22.000
What do you think is going to be the next thing?
02:02:38.000
The next thing will be something in your brain.
02:02:42.000
Yeah, it'll be an iCloud where everyone's just hanging out with each other.
02:02:45.000
Yeah, some virtual world where you're in an avatar.
02:02:54.000
The world we live in is very strange, John Reap.
02:02:57.000
But I'm glad you're around to provide comedic entertainment, sir.